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I don't see the article claiming Nietzsche would praise popular culture - it seems to claim otherwise ("Anti-academic Nietzsche may have been, but his mistake was in pinning his hopes on “high culture”") and it's rather solely what the author of the article thinks himself.

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Yeah, that's how I read it. And that last bit seemed so shoehorned on there that it almost seemed like it was an effort to give the story some kind of hook that the author or an editor might have thought it lacked.

The fact that the author took the precaution to say that Nietzsche himself would have disagreed with his supposedly Nietzsche-inspired theory, doesn't make his conclusions regarding mainstream culture any less of a non seguitur.

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